Interactive Reading Notebooks

Include the NOTES above, plus any other helpful points from our discussion in your IRNB entry. We will use these pages to help us answer plot questions about other stories.

Add an example for each ELEMENT of PLOT from our stories last week, BEDHEAD & ALEXANDER. Click on the titles if you need to re-watch the stories.

Include the notes below under your ELEMENTS of PLOT flaps.

EXPOSITION: background informationRISING ACTION:what leads up to the main problemCLIMAX:the high point of the problemFALLING ACTION:actions that solve the problemRESOLUTION: how things end

Story Elements STRUCTURE

Watch Stellaluna below and then map out the STRUCTURE of the story elements using the activity page from Mrs. Petlak.

PRoblem & Solution

Choose one or both of the stories below to watch and listen to. Think about the PROBLEM & SOLUTION in each story. Remember that you can make the video FULL SCREEN by clicking the icon in the lower right hand corner of the small video rectangle.

Take notes as you listen on the activity page pictured below. Finish exploring problem/solution using that page after your story ends.

Types of Conflict

CHARACTER -vs- CHARACTER

CHARACTER -vs- SELF

CHARACTER -vs- SOCIETY

CHARACTER -vs- NATURE

Make a Story Map

Watch/listen to the story below, ENEMY PIE. Use your STORY MAP activity page to take notes about different story elements as you listen.Finish the activity after your story ends. You may watch the story more than once if you need to in order to complete your story map.